Merilyn Hibma
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Merilyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine. She worked for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in University of Cambridge with Lionel Crawford (FRS), before being awarded an HRC Repatriation Fellowship and returning to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago. In 2014 she was appointed to the Department of Pathology.
Research Interest
Immune regulation and its contribution to skin pathogenesis
Publications
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Jemon, K., Young, V., Wilson, M., McKee, S., Ward, V., Baird, M., Young, S., & Hibma, M. (2013). An enhanced heterologous virus-like particle for human papillomavirus type 16 tumour immunotherapy. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e66866.
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Warif, N. M. A., Stoitzner, P., Leggatt, G. R., Mattarollo, S. R., Frazer, I. H., & Hibma, M. H. (2015). Langerhans cell homeostasis and activation Is altered in hyperplastic human papillomavirus type 16 E7 expressing epidermis. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0127155.
